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1 Geography. 2 Early human settlement. 3 Notable summits. 4 Landscape. ... The highest peak in the Bavarian Alps and in Germany as a whole is the Zugspitze.
While smaller groups within the Alps may be easily defined by the passes on either side, defining larger units can be problematic. A traditional divide exists between the Western Alps and the Eastern Alps, which uses the Splügen Pass (Italian: Passo dello Spluga) on the Swiss-Italian border, together with the Rhine to the north and Lake Como in the south as the defining features.
Germany (German: Deutschland) is a country in Central and Western Europe [3] that stretches from the Alps, across the North European Plain to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia , and is seventh-largest country by area in the continent.
The Allgäu Alps and the Allgäu region are not identical. The Allgäu is a landscape that, according to present-day understanding, is (almost entirely, but see Tannheimer Tal) on German soil. By contrast, the Allgäu Alps are a mountain range of the Alps whose definition falls out of the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps. Parts of ...
The Alps extend in an arc from France in the south and west to Slovenia in the east, and from Monaco in the south to Germany in the north. The Alps are a crescent shaped geographic feature of central Europe that ranges in an 800 km (500 mi) arc (curved line) from east to west and is 200 km (120 mi) in width.
German Limestone Alps: Thickly bedded carbonates of the Wetterstein limestone (Middle Triassic) in the summit area of Zugspitze German Limestone Alps: Thickly bedded limestones of the Dachstein Formation (Upper Triassic) in the east wall of Watzmann. The Eastern Alps strike south of the Flysch Zone and occupy the largest area in the German Alps ...
View from Mt. Lusen in the Bavarian Forest to the Dachstein massif of the Alps The Alpine Foreland, [1] less commonly called the Bavarian Foreland, [1] Bavarian Plateau [1] or Bavarian Alpine Foreland (German: Bayerisches Alpenvorland), refers to a triangular region of plateau and rolling foothills in Southern Germany, stretching from Lake Constance in the west to beyond Linz on the Danube in ...
Obersee (Königssee) While the highest mountain of the Berchtesgaden Alps is the Hochkönig (2,941 metres (9,649 ft)) located in the Austrian part, the best known peak is the Watzmann massif, the third-highest mountain of Germany at 2,713 metres (8,901 ft).